New Zealand news industry battles for collective bargaining rights as Australian rivals benefit from big tech payouts
A group of New Zealand news publishers has applied to the island country’s competition regulator for the power to engage…
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Canada’s news industry expects up to $150m annual windfall from Australia-style big tech crackdown
The news industry in Canada expects Google and Facebook to start paying publishers between CA$100-150m (up to £88m) a year…
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Why 18 Australian news minnows (and a billionaire’s charity) are clubbing together for big tech negotiations
When the Australian government introduced its news media bargaining code earlier this year, it represented a world-first opportunity for publishers…
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Rupert Murdoch hits out at Google and Facebook over ‘censorship’ and ‘algorithmic’ bias
Rupert Murdoch has accused tech giants of trying to “silence conservative voices” and “censorship”. Speaking at News Corp’s annual shareholder…
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Ofcom warns that secret tech giant algorithms may be bad for media plurality
Ofcom has agreed with the likes of Mail Online and The Sun that opaque algorithms from Google and Facebook may…
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Damian Collins MP on why Online Safety Bill can rebalance relationship between big tech and journalism
Damian Collins is the Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, and Chair of the Joint Committee on the Draft Online…
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CEO interview: Business booms for Bloomberg Media thanks to ad ‘windfall’ and 350,000 subs
For the US media, 2021 was supposed to be a year when fortunes came crashing down to earth. The end…
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